The SAT Hit Parade 5~7
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Purplicious on January 30, 2009
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105 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 esoteric | hard to understand |
| extraneous | extra |
| tedious | boring |
| caustic | corrosive |
| inadvertent | careless |
| exhaustive | complete |
| incongruous | not consistent |
| belittle | to make to seem little |
| unprecedented | happening for the first time |
| digress | to go off subject |
| appease | to soothe |
| frivolous | not serious |
| instigate | to provoke |
| sage | wise |
| predecessor | something that came before another |
| jeopardy | danger |
| tangible | touchable |
| indulgent | lenient |
| remorse | sadness |
| pivotal | crucial |
| scrupulous | strict |
| refute | to disprove |
| respite | a rest |
| stoic | indifferent (at least outwardly) |
| volatile | highly unstable |
| peripehral | unimportant |
| hedonistic | indugent |
| idiom | a peculiar expression |
| benefactor | a generous donor |
| brevity | briefness |
| apocryphal | false |
| virtuoso | masterful musician |
| slander | to defame |
| animostiy | hositility |
| deplete | to use up |
| amity | friendship |
| stringent | strict |
| voluminous | very large |
| auspicious | promising |
| fickle | capricious |
| lethargy | laziness |
| hackneyed | trite |
| amass | to accumulate |
| willful | deliberate |
| bastion | fortress |
| trepidation | fear |
| desecrate | to profane |
| fortuitous | accidental |
| vehement | passionate |
| assuage | to soothe |
| prodigious | extraordinary |
| torpor | sluggishness |
| furtive | secretive |
| supercillious | haughty |
| prudent | careful |
| verbose | wordy |
| pedestrian | common |
| innocuous | harmless |
| fanatic | one who is extremely devoted to a cause or idea |
| enhance | to make better |
| retract | to take back |
| ambiguous | unclear in meaning |
| paucity | scarcity |
| rescind | to repeal |
| subtle | not obvious |
| zealous | fervent |
| benign | gentle |
| compliant | submissive |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel, usually through imitation |
| innumerable | many |
| meander | to wander slowly like a river |
| authoritarian | like a dictator |
| brawn | muscles |
| contrite | remorseful |
| exemplify | to serve as an example of |
| facilitate | to make easier |
| hypothetical | unproven |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly defiant of authority |
| ambulatory | able to walk |
| diffident | timid |
| drone | to talk on and on in a dull way |
| gullible | believing |
| marred | bruised |
| nullify | to make unimportant |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| propriety | properness |
| rejuvenate | to make young and strong again |
| skeptical | doubting |
| tenacious | tough |
| animated | alive |
| authentic | real |
| bias | prejudice |
| blithe | scarcity |
| divert | to amuse |
| enthrall | to thrill |
| heed | to listen to |
| hindrance | an obstruction |
| irascible | irritable |
| merger | a joining |
| nostalgia | homesickness |
| pretentious | pompous |
| saccharine | sweet |
| stanza | verse |
| venerate | to revere |
| vilify | to defame |
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